Dadang Solihat, Emzir, Zainal Rafli
This action research was conducted against the background of unsuccessful learning in English business letter writing and has the aim at improving English business letter writing skills through the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The research was conducted throughout the odd semester from September 24, 2019, to January 8, 2020, in the third-semester students of the Economic Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Kuningan (FKIP-UNIKU) for the 2019-2020 academic year totaling 42 students. This study uses the Mertler model which has the stages; plan, action, development and reflection. Qualitative data is obtained from interviews and observations which are then analyzed using descriptive qualitative. Meanwhile, quantitative data were obtained from the results of the pre-cycle test, cycle 1 test, cycle 2 test and cycle 3 test which were then analyzed using simple statistics. The results showed an increase from cycle 1 to 3. In cycle 1 student letter writing skills reached 21 students or 50% of them got complete scores. In cycle 2 as many as 29 students (69%) achieved complete scores, and in cycle 3 as many as 39 (93%) students completed it successfully. The conclusion is that the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) learning approach can improve students' English business letter writing skills and is suggested to be an approach that needs to be applied in improving students' English business letter writing skills. © 2021 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Department of Language Education, Postgraduate Program, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
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